Hair-clasp.



E. NOYES.

HAIR CLASP.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-27, 1914.

1,183,108. Patented May16, 1916.

THE COLUMBIA PLANOURAPH co.. WASHINGTON. D. c.

ETHELL NOYES, OF f-JV EST KENSINGTON, IENDON, ENGLAND.

HAIR-CLASP. V i

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 16, 1916.

Application filed January 27, 1914. Serial No. 814,617.

To all whom it may camera:

Be it known that I, E'rrIELL Noyns, of 18 Maclise road, West Kensington, in the county of London, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in and Relating to Hair-Clasps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to pins and clasps of the type in which one end of the pin or clasp is attached to a piece of elastic and the other end of the pin or clasp is adapted to enter a. cap attached to the free end of the elastic.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved clasp or pin. 1

In clasps or pins as hitherto made the elastic has been in the form of a cord provided for the sole purpose of holding the cap in position on the end of the pin or clasp. According to this invention the elas tic is a ribbon or band and forms with the pin bar or compression member a clasp and has a function of holding the hair or" dress in position and is adapted to hold a flower or feather between the elastic and the dress, hat or hair. The cap, pins and bar may be made of metal, tortoiseshell, horn, or other suitable material, and may be attached to the elastic with or without a hinge. The elastic band may be plain, beaded, or jeweled, or it may be provided with transverse bars or hands. In some cases the elastic may be in twoor more pieces connected to gether by one or more bands or loops of metal or other material. The bar may be in the form of an elongated loop of any desired shape, the cap being made to fit the end of the bar or pins.

Figure l is a face view, and Fig. 2 a plan of one form of pin made in accordance with this invention.

In the drawings a is a flat elastic band,

I) is a bar having one free end, 0 is a cap in the form'of a cone-shaped cup attached to a cross bar 0, f f are beads or jewels. In place of the looped bar a blunt ended bar of another shape may be employed.

In use the pin or bar is inserted in the hair or dress material. The elastic is then stretched and the cap placed over the pin :1

'tic band, and a locking cap for said bar attached to and normally inclined to said band. a

3. A clasp comprising an elastic band, a locking bar looped into an elliptical form attached to and normally in line with said elastic band, and a cap for said looped bar normally inclined to and attached to said elastic band.

at. A clasp comprising an elastic band, a locking bar having a V-shaped end attaching to and in line with said band, and a cap for said locking bar attached to and normally inclined to said band.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ETHELL NOYES.

Witnesses:

REGINALD ETON ELLIS, ALFRED B. CAMPBELL.

Copies of this patent day be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the'0ommissioner of Patents,

Washington, G." 

